Investment Opportunities In Latin America And Public Asset Managers

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Jacob Wolinsky
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This is a multi part post on ValueWalk’s interview with David Marcus, co-founder, CEO, and CIO of Evermore Global Advisors. In this part, Marcus discusses the potential investment opportunities in Latin America.

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Very cool. Can you talk about Latin America and the potential opportunities as well there and what you’ve seen?

Sure. Currently we have … so we have nothing direct but we have indirect, and what does that mean? We actually do have a Chilean … I guess it is direct, we have a Chilean fish farm, it’s a salmon farming company, it’s called Salmones Comanchaca, I will admit it took me a little while before I could just say it that smoothly. But we own, I don’t know, north of 5% of the company. But it’s listed on the Norwegian Stock Exchange, that’s why I kind of said it’s indirect, but it’s actually a salmon farmer in Chile that’s controlled by a family and here in the northeast in the United States they provide a shop, for example, with their salmon. So that’s really our only direct asset in that region. But it’s a region that has a number of families, and main owners of companies, it’s gone through a lot of stress and strain. And, you know, it’s a region that has had sort of booms and busts over long periods of time. And is also, and depending on which countries you’re in, a lot of national resources. We have historically avoided all kind of resource type of investments, commodity businesses. We like to only look at them when it’s just absolute sheer carnage and devastation, which is what drove us to shipping companies years ago.

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Jacob Wolinsky is the founder of HedgeFundAlpha (formerly ValueWalk Premium), a popular value investing and hedge fund focused intelligence service. Prior to founding the company, Jacob worked as an equity analyst focused on small caps. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com FD: I do not purchase any equities to avoid conflict of interest and any insider information. I only purchase broad-based ETFs and mutual funds.